• AppleTea@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    If Musk’s popularity with the right and, to a lesser extent, Soros’ minor approval among center right what passes for a left are anything to go by, it’s that United States politics is mostly defined by being contrarian.

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    2 months ago

    Would be interesting to see the numbers for Gabe Newell, he always seems to somehow get away with being a billionaire without getting hated the way most publicly famous billionaires are.

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      2 months ago

      Gabe’s crimes :

      • Billionaire
      • Charges 30% for steam sales
      • Cosmetics sold in valve games are the same level of gambling as pokemon cards, due to existence of secondary market.

      Zuck’s Crimes :

      • Violating privacy of every person for all time
      • Makes shitty deals with phone manufacturers to shoehorn his shit in there
      • Forces people to use whatsapp through network effects.
      • biased every election forever, caused resurgence of fascism and brexit.
      • Instagram resposible for influencers and self esteem issues in kids.

      This might be why.

    • redparadise@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      Cult of valve, yeah sure it’s temporarily better than the competition but it’s still a private company, yet the cult defends it uncritically, as if being forced to implement more regulation and consumer protection would hurt their poor billion dollar corporation.

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    2 months ago

    Seams like we are all in agreement except for Elon Musk, let’s just split him down the middle and unify the country.